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style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Elias Kent Kane</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:EliasKane.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/EliasKane.jpg" decoding="async" width="175" height="225" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="175" data-file-height="225" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senator</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />March 4, 1825 – December 12, 1835</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_McLean_(Illinois_politician)" title="John McLean (Illinois politician)">John McLean</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Lee_D._Ewing" title="William Lee D. Ewing">William Ewing</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">1st <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State of Illinois">Secretary of State of Illinois</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1818–1822</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Governor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shadrach_Bond" title="Shadrach Bond">Shadrach Bond</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Office established</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_D._Lockwood" title="Samuel D. Lockwood">Samuel D. Lockwood</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_House_of_Representatives" title="Illinois House of Representatives">Illinois House of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1794-06-07</span>)</span>June 7, 1794<br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, New York</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 12, 1835<span style="display:none">(1835-12-12)</span> (aged 41)<br /><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jacksonian_democracy" title="Jacksonian democracy">Jacksonian</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Elias Kent Kane</b> (June 7, 1794 – December 12, 1835) was the first Illinois Secretary of State and a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Kane&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, to merchant Capt. Elias Kent Kane and Deborah VanSchelluyne of <a href="/wiki/Dutchess_County,_New_York" title="Dutchess County, New York">Dutchess County, New York</a>. Young Kane attended public schools, then <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale College</a>, from which he has graduated in the year 1813. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Kane&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After he studied law and was admitted to the bar, Kane commenced practice in <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>, and then moved to <a href="/wiki/Kaskaskia,_Illinois" title="Kaskaskia, Illinois">Kaskaskia, Illinois</a> in 1814. </p><p>He became allied with <a href="/wiki/Jesse_B._Thomas" title="Jesse B. Thomas">Jesse B. Thomas</a>, a slaveholder who had secured the job of judge of the <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Territory of Illinois">Territory of Illinois</a>. Like Judge Thomas and his rival <a href="/wiki/Ninian_Edwards" title="Ninian Edwards">Ninian Edwards</a>, Kane was a delegate to the first state <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_convention_(political_meeting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional convention (political meeting)">constitutional convention</a> in 1818. At the convention, the Thomas/Kane faction unsuccessfully tried to add language permitting slavery in the new state (where it had been forbidden by the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance_of_1787" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwest Ordinance of 1787">Northwest Ordinance of 1787</a>). However, that proposal was defeated by a faction whose leaders included <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Mason_Peck" title="John Mason Peck">John Mason Peck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Cartwright_(revivalist)" title="Peter Cartwright (revivalist)">Peter Cartwright</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker">Quaker</a> <a href="/wiki/James_Lemen" title="James Lemen">James Lemen</a>, publisher <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hooper_Warren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hooper Warren (page does not exist)">Hooper Warren</a> and future governor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Coles" title="Edward Coles">Edward Coles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kane claimed ownership of five people as slaves in 1820,<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After an unsuccessful 1820 campaign for election to the <a href="/wiki/17th_United_States_Congress" title="17th United States Congress">17th Congress</a> which featured numerous letters in the <i>Edwardsville Spectator</i> concerning slavery,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and which anti-slavery candidate <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pope_Cook" title="Daniel Pope Cook">Daniel Pope Cook</a> won, Kane became Illinois' first <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State of Illinois">Secretary of State</a>, and served from 1820 to 1824. In that year, Kane led proslavery forces in the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_House_of_Representatives" title="Illinois House of Representatives">Illinois House of Representatives</a> which attempted to call another constitutional convention, but was again defeated by a coalition led by Governor Coles, U.S. Representative Cook and religious leaders of many denominations.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, fellow legislators twice appointed Kane to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>. He served from March 4, 1825, until his death in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, in 1835. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Kane&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His body was returned to the family farm in <a href="/wiki/Randolph_County,_Illinois" title="Randolph County, Illinois">Randolph County, Illinois</a>, but due to continued desecration of the family gravesite, he was reinterred in 1984 (a campaign led by local funeral director, Michael McClure) in Evergreen Cemetery in nearby Chester, in a grave adjacent with that of his sometime political opponent and Illinois' first governor, <a href="/wiki/Shadrach_Bond" title="Shadrach Bond">Shadrach Bond</a>. The Kane family gravesite includes that of his wife, the former Frances Pelletier (1799-1851), two children who died young, and four sons. One son, Elias Kent Kane, Jr. (1822-1853), served in the United States Army. One of Kane's daughters married Illinois governor <a href="/wiki/William_H._Bissell" class="mw-redirect" title="William H. Bissell">William H. Bissell</a>, a vocal opponent of slavery. Kane's father (of the same name) is buried in <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Cemetery" title="Congressional Cemetery">Congressional Cemetery</a> in Washington, D.C.,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having survived this son by five years and secured his namesake grandson's admission to West Point. </p><p>On January 16, 1836, the Illinois legislature formed a new county, <a href="/wiki/Kane_County,_Illinois" title="Kane County, Illinois">Kane</a>, and named it to honor the recently deceased Senator, Elias Kent Kane.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Kane&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress_members_who_died_in_office_(1790%E2%80%931899)" title="List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)">List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elias_Kane&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px 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.cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFUnited_States_CongressK000006" class="citation web cs1">United States Congress. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000006">"Elias Kane (id: K000006)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="Biographical Directory of the United States Congress">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-02-09</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Biographical+Directory+of+the+United+States+Congress&rft.atitle=Elias+Kane+%28id%3A+K000006%29&rft.au=United+States+Congress&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbioguide.congress.gov%2Fscripts%2Fbiodisplay.pl%3Findex%3DK000006&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElias+Kane" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leichtle and Carveth, Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011) pp. 74, 78.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ress, David, Governor Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois, 1823–1824. (McFarland & Co., Inc., Jefferson, NC and London, 2006) paperback <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7864-2639-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-7864-2639-X">0-7864-2639-X</a> at pp. 62, 66-74.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WaPo-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WaPo_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeilBlancoDominguez2022" class="citation news cs1">Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo (10 January 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/?itid=ap_juliezauzmerweil">"More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation"</a>. <i>Washington Post</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 April</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Washington+Post&rft.atitle=More+than+1%2C800+congressmen+once+enslaved+Black+people.+This+is+who+they+were%2C+and+how+they+shaped+the+nation.&rft.date=2022-01-10&rft.aulast=Weil&rft.aufirst=Julie+Zauzmer&rft.au=Blanco%2C+Adrian&rft.au=Dominguez%2C+Leo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fhistory%2Finteractive%2F2022%2Fcongress-slaveowners-names-list%2F%3Fitid%3Dap_juliezauzmerweil&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElias+Kane" class="Z3988"></span> Updated 12 April 2022</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leichtle and Carveth p. 78 citing issues of July 18 and 25 and August 8, 1820, as well as .C. Pease, Frontier State 1818-1848, 72-72; Harris, History of Negro Servitude 27-29</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ress, pp. 82-83</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ress, p. 148 et seq.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/elias-kane-congressional-cemetery/7gGCOruPVRkCdg">"Elias Kane"</a>. <i>Google Arts & Culture</i>. Historic Congressional Cemetery<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2023-06-11</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Google+Arts+%26+Culture&rft.atitle=Elias+Kane&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fartsandculture.google.com%2Fasset%2Felias-kane-congressional-cemetery%2F7gGCOruPVRkCdg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElias+Kane" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.countyofkane.org/documents/County%20Board/Kane%20County%20History.pdf">"Kane County History"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Geneva, Illinois: Kane County Government Center. 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2013-09-19</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Kane+County+History&rft.place=Geneva%2C+Illinois&rft.pub=Kane+County+Government+Center&rft.date=2010&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.countyofkane.org%2Fdocuments%2FCounty%2520Board%2FKane%2520County%2520History.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElias+Kane" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGannett,_Henry1905" class="citation book cs1">Gannett, Henry (1905). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ"><i>The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States</i></a>. Govt. Print. Off. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n171">172</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Origin+of+Certain+Place+Names+in+the+United+States&rft.pages=172&rft.pub=Govt.+Print.+Off.&rft.date=1905&rft.au=Gannett%2C+Henry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElias+Kane" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><i>Office created</i></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Secretary_of_State" title="Illinois Secretary of State">Illinois Secretary of State</a> </b><br />1818-1822 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_D._Lockwood" title="Samuel D. Lockwood">Samuel D. Lockwood</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_McLean_(Illinois_politician)" title="John McLean (Illinois politician)">John McLean</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_Illinois" title="List of United States senators from Illinois"> U.S. senator (Class 3) from Illinois</a> </b><br />1825–1835 <br />Served alongside: <b><a href="/wiki/Jesse_B._Thomas" title="Jesse B. Thomas">Jesse B. Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_McLean_(Illinois_politician)" title="John McLean (Illinois politician)">John McLean</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_J._Baker" title="David J. Baker">David J. Baker</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_McCracken_Robinson" class="mw-redirect" title="John McCracken Robinson">John M. Robinson</a></b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/William_Lee_D._Ewing" title="William Lee D. Ewing">William L.D. 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Doyle">Doyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Woods_(Illinois_politician)" title="Harry Woods (Illinois politician)">Woods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Stevenson_(politician)" title="Lewis Stevenson (politician)">Stevenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Lincoln_Emmerson" title="Louis Lincoln Emmerson">Emmerson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Stratton" title="William J. Stratton">Stratton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Hughes" title="Edward J. Hughes">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Yates_Rowe" title="Richard Yates Rowe">Rowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Barrett_(politician)" title="Edward J. Barrett (politician)">Barrett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_F._Carpentier" title="Charles F. Carpentier">Carpentier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Chamberlain" title="William H. Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Powell_(politician)" title="Paul Powell (politician)">Powell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Lewis_Jr." title="John W. Lewis Jr.">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Howlett" title="Michael Howlett">Howlett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_J._Dixon" title="Alan J. 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